Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-11-04

only thirty-one years of age. He began
life as Office boy in hosiery mill in New
! Britain.
| MUELLER NEPPER, wholesale harness
| dealers of Sioux City, Iowa, assigned
! Wednesday. 1t is claimed the liabilities
! exceed 500, 900, and that the assets will
not reach $4,000.
THE Iowa Supreme Court, in an ap-
pealsd case, decides that railway com
| papy cannot be compelled to transp port
| beer in that State, in contravontion of
| the spirit of the Prohibitory law.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND Tuesday issued a
proclamation designating the oath of
November as day of thankss living and
prayer.
A WEALTHY English syndicate will pur-
chase half interest IN valuable iron
lands on the VermilliOn range, near Du-
luth, Mimi. from the Consolidated Yer
million Company, the consideration be-
ing $3,0OO,O0C.
REV. BERNARD CARPENTER received e
check for $4,000 from his congregation
when he resigned as pastor of the Uni
tartan Church in Boston.
OFfICERs of tho Cincinnati, Hamilton
and Doyton Road at Cincinnati, Ohio,
Thursday asked that the order of Judge
Cox, staying proceedings uuder the de-
cree of Judge Nanderveer, of the Butler
County Common Pleas Court be made
permanent.
FIRM of New York contractors who
have large number of buildings under
way and whose work has been stopped by
a boycott, have had five walking delegates
arrested for conspiracy.
A wooLEN mill in Hespler, Ontario,
owned by John Harvey and J. B. Nc
Question, was seized Thursday, at the in
stance of the Bank of Montreal, under a
chattel mortgage for $4,000. About
25O employees are thrown out of work.
THE scarlet fever is epidemic in Mont
gomery county, Illinois, and is raging
with such violence in the vicinity OF Har-
vel that the public schools have been
closed to prevent the spread of the dis
ease.
Dr.. ANDREW JACKSON GRANT, the motor
ious bigamist and confidence man, who
died in Boston last spring, is now said to
have been an illegitimate son of Victor
Emmanuel, king of Italy.
The ground is covered by half foot
of snow in some localities in Northern
Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Da-
kota, and the freez5 was quite general
throughout the Northwest and the lake
region.
MISS JENNIE STEWART, of Brazil, Ind,
the young bride who mysteriously dis
appeared just before the time fixed for
her marriage Sunday night, has been
found. She had been secretly married
the night before to the lover of her
choice.
Ir is reported that gold has been found
or the west bank of the Chippewa River,
fifteen miles from its mouth. Specimens
exhibited at Eau Claire, Wis, are said to
be of high value.
A BANQUET was enjoyed at New York
Monday night by the survivors of the
First Regiment of New York Volunteers,
who in 1916 set out for the settlement
and conquest of California, under the
leadership of ColoEel Jonathan D. Steven
son. There are now living 15S of the
1000 men who set out on the expedition.
JOHN S. STEPHENS, the attorney of the
Toledo, Peoria and Western Railway,
with headquarters at Peoria, says the
company has up to date settled with the
relatives or legal representatives of forty
of the people who were killed at Chats
worth, and with sixty of those who were
injured. The highest amount paid out
Oh a death loss was $4,000.